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MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
Conducted By Thomas W. Bresnahan
New New York Distributor
for Cundy-Bettoney Line
identified with the selling of musical merchan-
dise at wholesale for a number of years, has
been appointed traveling sales representative
for K. Galanti & Bros., 71 Third avenue, New
York, manufacturers of the Galanti accordions.
He is now visiting dealers in the New Eng-
land States with a full line of Galanti products.
He will later call upon dealers in New York,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia,
Maryland and Michigan.
American Musical Instrument Co., Inc., Formed to Handle Silva
Bet, Boston Wonder and Other Wood-Wind Lines Made
Globe Go. Announces
by the Cundy-Bettoney Co., of Boston, Mass.
Florence Tenor Guitar
HE American Musical Instrument Co., Inc., has been formed for the purpose of distrib-
uting the products of the Cundy-Bettoney Co., Boston, in New York and vicinity. The
new concern will have its headquarters at 225 West Forty-sixth street, and will carry
the full line of Silva Bet, Boston Wonder and other metal clarinets and wood winds made by
the Cundy-Bettoney Co. as well as Boston Three-Star trumpets and other musical instruments.
The new company will be under the management of F. A. Mayer, who has been sales man-
ager of the Cundy-Bettoney Co., and who has
just returned from an extensive trip with the management of the International Music Exposi-
tion, "Music in the Life of the Nations." This
U. S. Navy Band.
Mr. Mayer is highly optimistic over the suc- band was organized only a few weeks ahead of
cess of the new venture, and he made the fol- the opening day of that exposition, but made
lowing statement to a representative of The such headway under the leadership of the
Review: "We hope by demonstration to stimu- teacher, Mr. Kroenung, that it was able to give
late the sale for our products in the New York several big concerts. These concerts were given
territory and to supply the demand through
the usual channels of jobber and dealer. We
are now able to give all our customers in New
York and vicinity factory service on all lines
of Bettoney instruments."
Harry Bettoney, head of the Cundy-Bettoney
Co., will act as sales manager of the Cundy-
Bettoney Co. He paid a visit to New York
last week for the particular purpose of opening
the American Musical Instrument Co. head-
quarters.
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New Instrument, Which Is a Decided Novelty,
Can Be Played as Tenor Banjo, Ukulele and
Guitar
ST. CHARLES, 111., February 13.—A new tenor
guitar known as the Florence tenor guitar has
been announced by the Globe Music Co., manu-
facturer of stringed instruments. This instru-
ment is decidedly a novelty and has been shown
by General Manager Johnson to practically all
the leading jobbers in the trade and they have
received it enthusiastically as a likely sales
winner.
The Florence tenor guitar can be played
Frankfort
Harmonica
Band
on Outing
German Harmonica Band
Formed in Frankfort
Orchestra of 800 Children Outstanding Feature
of International Music Exposition in That
City
The school harmonica orchestra movement
which has been one of the developments of the
last few years due largely to the promotion
efforts of William J. Haussler, of the firm of
M. Hohner, Inc., New York, has been catching
on in Germany, according to reports received
by Mr. Haussler from that country.
The accompanying photograph shows the 8U0
school children which compose the harmonica
orchestra of the City of Frankfort on an outing
down the Rhine river in Germany.
It was formed under the direction of the
on the exposition grounds and were the center
of attraction. One of these concerts was at-
tended by more than 8,000 people. While dur-
ing the life of the exposition any number of
musical presentations were given, one can easily
say that these harmonica concerts had reached
the peak of popularity.
Robert Putter Now
Representing R. Galanti
Robert I'utter, who has been prominently
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either as a tenor banjo or ukulele as well as
tenor guitar. It has a birch body with Eastern
spruce top and celluloid inlay around top edge
and sound hole. It has a most distinctive shape,
the pattern of the body being a brand new one
that is certain to attract the eye.
The Globe Music Co.'s advertising depart-
ment is out with a new two-color circular which
features the new numbers in the Globe line. In
addition to the Florence tenor guitar, numbers
shown include a tenor banjo, banjo ukulele,
guitar, regular tenor guitar, ukulele and flat
mandolin.
Karl Fuchs Leaves
America for Europe
Trade
Mark
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS
SINCE 1883
The Fred GretschMfeCo.
6O Broadway BrooklyilN.Y
Dr. Karl Fuchs, head of the band instrument
manufacturing firm of Hohland & Fuchs, Gras-
litz, Czccho-Slovakia, and mayor of the city
of Graslitz, sailed Saturday on the S. S. "Levi-
athan" for Europe after spending about five
weeks in the United States visiting the musical
merchandise trade. Mr. Fuchs made an ex-
tensive trip through the Middle West and ex-
pressed himself as impressed by the strides
mule in the growth of America's musical mer-
chandise trade in recent years.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review.